This record comprises a documentary reference to a shipping casualty which has been assigned to the maritime named location DULAS ISLAND pending more information which may allow a more precise location for the loss to be assigned.

Event and Historical Information:
The JOHN PARRY was a wooden schooner built by John Parry at Bangor in 1851. Technical and configuration specications are given as 44.23tons burthen; 56.2ft length x 16.1ft breadth x 8.5ft depth in hold; 1 deck, 2 masts; schooner rigged (changed to a ketch by 1892) with a standing bowsprit, square sterned, carvel built, a man's bust head; framework and planking of wood; official number 19005. The schooner's first owners were John Parry of Bangor, shipbuilder (16 shares); John Thomas of Bangor, slate merhcant (16 shares); William Griffiths of Bangor, master mariner (4 shares); Henty Pace (?) of Llandedai. Agent (16 shares); William Pritchard of Bangor, slate merhcant (8 shares); and William Parry of Bangor, brasier (4 shares). On 9 December 1901, the schooner was on passage from Belfast to Bangor under the command of master J W Williams. The JOHN PARRY was caught in a northwesterly force 10 gale and stranded on Dulas Island. The schooner's Port of Beaumaris Shipping Register entry is closed with the annotation ' Ship totally lost on 9 December'.

Sources include:
Board of Trade Wreck Return 1901 Appendix C table 1 pg129 (697)
Larn and Larn Shipwreck Database 2002
Port of Beaumaris Shipping Register 1845 - 1855, Gwynedd Archive Service Caernarfvon XSR 9, 13 in 1850
Wynne-Jones, I, 2001, Shipwrecks of North Wales, 4 ed, pg81

Maritime Officer, RCAHMW, January 2013.